The Information: ‘Inside Tim Cook’s Secret $275 Billion Deal with Chinese Authorities’

Pointing to Gruber's writeup and not to the entire article as it is quite long. It seems increasingly obvious that the deep connections Apple has in China are an engine of it’s growth, both for production of devices as well as customers. But it is also a giant risk for the company, particularly one driven so publicly by certain values and aspirations, to be connected with a country that is so not aligned with those values.